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TECHNOLOGY CHALLENGES IN THE HEALTH INDUSTRY
The health care industry is under constant pressure to streamline operations and cut spending while still providing quality care to patients. HIPAA forces health care organizations to embrace IT solutions that will not only save money in the long run, but also bring them into regulatory compliance in order to avoid costly fines.
Escalating costs, growing organizations and rigorous government regulations create an extremely challenging environment for IT.
Support many different types of users (clinical, administrative, research) with different computing needs.
Deploy frequent HIPAA-required updates and patches for validation to numerous applications and systems keep IT in a perpetual state of reactive patching, causing other issues or requirements to possibly be overlooked.
Business Continuity and Regulatory Compliance are becoming ever more important. The question of how to store critical patient information in a secure manner offers escalating costs and no apparent easy answers.
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Electronic Patient Records
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Digitizing patient records is an inevitable eventuality. Legislation has already been passed in many parts of the country forcing the entire health care industry to adapt to the new changes. The merits are obvious, but the question is, once records are "digitized" how do you ensure that they are being backed up and made available when you need it, but still stay affordable?
Here's a possible solution
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